Age Quotes
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By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
John le Carre
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I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
Ira Sachs
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
Eavan Boland
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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
Yasunari Kawabata
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.
Grace Martine Tandon
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The attentive reader may have noticed that the core period of Jasper's Axial age—the lifetimes of Pythagoras, Confucius, and the Buddha—corresponds almost exactly to the period in which coinage was invented.
David Graeber
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Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.
Lajos Kossuth
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Oscar Wilde
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Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.
Iris Apfel
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Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
Parker Stevenson
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I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.
Anthony Doerr
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This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.
Albert Camus
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Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.
Kehinde Wiley
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Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Martin Yan
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I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.
Caitlin Moran
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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.
Joseph Nye
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It is personalities not principles that move the age.
Oscar Wilde
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This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.
Susan Kelechi Watson
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
Kacey Musgraves
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When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.
Alison Lurie
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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan